The RISE Centre will be hosted
at Nicosia's creative quarter

Transforming Cyprus into a
Technology & Innovation Hub

RISE stands for Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies.

About RISE

The proposed Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE) aims to become a Centre of Excellence and a hub across the three continents bordering Cyprus, facilitating thus the local scientific, technological, and economic growth of the region. It identifies the potential of Interactive Media to bring together several scientific areas, yielding applications in the priority areas of the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Cyprus. Therefore, research in RISE integrates the Visual Sciences, Human Factors and Design, and Communications and Artificial Intelligence, in a tight synergy that provides a unique interdisciplinary research perspective that emphasizes an “Inspired by Humans, Designed for Humans” philosophy.

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Partners

The partnership for the creation of RISE is composed of the public universities, the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus University of Technology and Open University Cyprus, the advanced partners Max Planck Instiute for Informatics (Germany) and University College London (UK) and the Municipality of Nicosia (Project Coordinator).

Max Planck Institut Informatik

University College London

University of Cyprus

Cyprus University of Technology

Open University of Cyprus

What Partners Say

Read what our key people have to say about the project.

RISE will be a flagship project and a major driving force in developing an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship. Situated in the core of the inner walled city of Nicosia it will also act as a key pillar of the city’s integrated development strategy. In partnership with world class institutions and high caliber national institutions, we are harnessing the significant comparative advantages and resources of the Capital of Cyprus to foster research and innovation excellence. We aim to thrust Nicosia onto the competitive world stage as a regional hub of technological innovation and Cyprus as an economy of knowledge.

Constantinos Yiorkadjis (Mayor of Nicosia)

We are delighted to be part of the RISE consortium and hope that our experiences will help forming the new RISE center, a Cypriot Center of excellence on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies. We strongly believe in the concept of fostering both, cutting edge research and technology transfer under one umbrella. Together we aim to make the RISE center both, a highly visible place for cutting edge computer science research and a well known innovation accelerator for researchers from all over the world.

Our participation on the RISE consortium to create a new Cypriot Centre of excellence in Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies, is a step of major significance in the advancement of our existing collaborations with Cyprus.
On the basis of our extensive experience at UCL, in leading world class research and several innovative knowledge exchange and entrepreneurship activities, we are contributing to shaping RISE and its successful long-term operation.

Prof. Anthony Steed (University College London, UK)

Call: H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 739578

This project has received funding from the Government of the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for the European Programmes, Coordination and Development.